{"id":66242,"date":"2019-11-07T17:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T22:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66242"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T22:58:40","slug":"sajith-says-he-would-appoint-a-new-prime-minister-after-being-voted-into-office-despite-prime-minister-ranil-telling-media-that-he-would-continue-to-remain-pm-during-premadas-presidential-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66242","title":{"rendered":"Sajith Says He Would Appoint a New Prime Minister After Being Voted Into Office Despite Prime Minister Ranil Telling Media That he would Continue to  Remain  PM During Premada&#8217;s  Presidential Tenure Also"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said once voted into office he would appoint a new prime minister who he felt could command a majority in parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not include any individual accused of corruption in my ministerial cabinet,&#8221; he said making a special announcement at a private TV station.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe recently told reporters that he would continue to remain in his position as PM during Premadasa\u2019s tenure as president as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The NDF candidate emphasised that he would appoint a cabinet of ministers comprising of young and skilled individuals who would publicly declare their assets and liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would conduct the parliamentary elections at \u201cthe earliest\u201d, and appoint a \u201cstable government\u201d that would see only professionals and women entering parliament through the national list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNepotism and the old corrupt political system should end. Authoritarian politics which sees individuals clinging onto power by use of force or violence should end,\u201d Premadasa said.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton66242\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D66242&amp;text=Sajith%20Says%20He%20Would%20Appoint%20a%20New%20Prime%20Minister%20After%20Being%20Voted%20Into%20Office%20Despite%20Prime%20Minister%20Ranil...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said once voted into office he would appoint a new prime minister who he felt could command a majority in parliament. &#8220;I will not include any individual accused of corruption in my ministerial cabinet,&#8221; he said making a special announcement at a private TV station. His remarks &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Sajith Says He Would Appoint a New Prime Minister After Being Voted Into Office Despite Prime Minister Ranil Telling Media That he would Continue to  Remain  PM During Premada&#8217;s  Presidential Tenure Also&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66245,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66242\/revisions\/66245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}